Mastering DART: Master the art of programming high-performance applications with Dart

Akopkokhyants

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eBook Nov 2014 346 pages 1st Edition

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If you are an application developer who has experience with Dart and want to develop reusable and robust code in Dart, then this book is for you. You are expected to have a basic knowledge of core elements and applications.

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Build applications easily using the eventdriven paradigm
Familiarize yourself with asynchronous programming
Understand when and how to use collections to store and manipulate groups of objects
Use Dart and JavaScript together to build web applications
Add internalization and localization support to your application to improve its performance
Organize clienttoserver communication and discover the protocols for specific scenarios
Detect and use HTML5 features that will help you deliver rich, crossplatform content
Discover different techniques to secure your web application from unauthorized users

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Mastering Dart by Sergey Akopkokhyants takes Dart to a new level. This book assumes you have application programming background like Dart, Java or C#.Highlights of the book.- talks about best practices. So gives rule of thumb approach.- explains design patterns like factory pattern, singleton pattern.- has conversational style of explanation that makes me feel the author takes us along.- focus on concurrency - which is a good thing. EDA, isolates, etc. This is an enterprise grade rich language.- concept of streams for pipelining tasks.- author shares some opinions like variables-or-accessor methods, inheritance-vs-composition.- Provides some useful references to profiling tools like wrk.Chapter wise core topicsChapter 1: Beyond Dart's Basics: Core topics: passing functions around, closures and mixins.Chapter 2: Advanced Techniques and Reflection Core topics: annotations, proxies and reflectionChapter 3: Object Creation Core topics: types of constructors- named constructor, redirecting constructor, private, factory constructors and initializing variables.Chapter 4: Asynchronous Programming Core topics: Dart VM execution model, call-vs-event stack architecture and differences between them, futures, zones(configurable execution context) and isolates.Chapter 5: The Stream Framework Core topics: streams - types and management, event sinks.Chapter 6: The Collection Framework Core topics: "usual" collection and more.Chapter 7: Dart and JavaScript Interoperation Core topics: Interaction with jQuery.Chapter 8: Internalization and Localization Core topics: "usual" stuff.Chapter 9: Client-to-server Communication Core topics: Handling HTTP request and response streams, AJAX (long)polling, server-sent events.Chapter 10: Advanced Storage Core topics: Cookies, Web Storage, Web SQL and IndexedDBChapter 11: Supporting Other HTML5 Features Core topics: Web Notification, drag-and-drop, geolocation APIs and CanvasChapter 12: Security Aspects Core topics: Web security, Securing a server, Securing a client and best practices.There is this sentence, "The website must have permission before use your location information." The author could have had the book proof read well. But as long as such sentence constructs do not have material ambiguity, I am willing to give the benefit of doubt.What I like most is the methodical flow of topics that builds on foundation and leaves us at the optimal level to explore things for ourselves based on the needs of the project.Disclosure: I got a copy to review and am not compensated for this review. My background is J2EE/backend stuff. For a person with purely UI background (HTML/CSS/Javascript), this may not be the best book to start with, IMHO.

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Jeffrey Johnson Jan 21, 2015

Even though this book covers advanced topics, it doesn't storm ahead, leaving the reader trying to play catch-up. Examples and chapters build, in comfortable increments, on previous ones and there's hardly any "but more on that later" as I've seen in many other books.Sergey manages to stay focused on the advanced topics without falling into the trap of rehashing the basics of Dart. His writing is simple and to the point and I appreciate that.Topics are discussed in detail and I didn't feel that he'd glossed over any of them. I'm not a Dart developer myself, yet I was able to grasp the concepts fairly easily. There was hardly any of that "what did I just read" feeling I get with some books.(Disclosure: I know and work with the author)

Dima Jan 21, 2015

Great book that delving deep into Dart. Must have for learning Dart, absolutely.

Corneliu Dascalu Dec 27, 2014

I really enjoyed it. I found it suitable for my level of experience with Dart (beginner). The author doesn't insist on basic stuff that can be easily found in the official docs, but explains in-depth the more advanced features of Dart.I feel that I have learned a lot, and that I can use the book as a resource for future projects.

Paul Jan 19, 2015

There are not many Dart books published yet but there is some good information collected in this book. I disagree with some of the content, but chapters are a good length and have decent summaries.I would recommend it only for experienced developers that are healthily skeptical about things claimed to be “good practice” and “high performance” throughout the book.To be fair the blurb on the site also warns it requires some experience, but I surmise for different reasons. The book feels like it is imposing Java and enterprise ideals on Dart. Dart does not need all that baggage – even if the language itself enables it. To an impressionable mind this book could encourage some poor engineering choices.For example it uses object composition examples based on real life concepts – an inexperienced programmer might take that literally… modeling for real life rather than for how data is best represented and manipulated. There are no warnings about the cost of using reflection, how either type of optional parameter makes life harder for Dart and Javascript VMs, costs of object instantiation or the different types of function calls presented. There are many places throughout the book a novice could be mislead down a very poorly performing path.There are English language errors throughout. Catched rather than caught, angel rather than angle. There are a few phrases that sound conversational and a little out of place. It sometimes made reading a little jarring. I believe these issues could be solved with another editorial pass, but this version lacks polish.The book redeems itself back to three out of five when the reader has confidence to ignore the overtly enterprise style code. The language features and packages presented in later chapters were more useful.I have an e-copy of the book from Packt and read it entirely on a Kindle Paperwhite. The main text was typeset quite nicely and with the smallest font on my Kindle Paperwhite the code samples mostly fit on single lines.Disclosure: I was given a review copy and no compensation.

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